Skip to content
applystead.Get started

JOB AT STRIPE

Software Engineer

Apply with Applystead

Try Premium free for 7 days (card required): tailor your résumé to this job with AI, and Applystead applies to jobs that match you, résumé attached and answers filled in.

Standard: up to 500 a day, sent for you once you turn on Auto apply. Premium: automatic applying with no daily cap. Compare plans

Tailor your résumé to this job

Create an account and this job comes with it: first in line once your profile is set up and your plan has started, and its description waits in your Resume studio for you to tailor your résumé to it.

Continue with GoogleSign up with email

Uploading lets Applystead's AI read your documents to draft your profile. We don't keep the files. If you don't create an account, the draft is deleted after 7 days. Privacy

Application facts

  • Application form: from 52 forms we checked, 47 ask for a cover letter; about 12 questions only Stripe asks per form. What it asks
  • Pay benchmark: Software Engineer postings that list pay show a $175K median (10,259 postings)
  • Pay benchmark: Stripe postings that list pay show a $217K median (26 postings)
  • H-1B: Stripe has H-1B labor condition applications on file with the U.S. Department of Labor (at least 351 filings, fiscal years 2025–2026). An LCA is not a visa approval. H-1B sponsors hiring now

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services that must achieve 99.99%+ availability and handle security-sensitive data.
  • Responsible for improving developer tooling.
  • Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure, participate in an on-call rotation, and collaborate with engineering teams across the company to plan and safely execute changes in production.
  • Set up and operate infrastructure that participates in decentralized distributed systems, including creating deploy pipelines for artifacts.
  • Build and harden custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) used to bootstrap EC2 instances, and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for these systems.
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus three (3) years of software engineering or related experience.

Must have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Cloud technologies, including AWS and Azure;
  • Go, Python or Java;
  • Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems;
  • Linux OS;
  • Metrics, alarms and dashboards;
  • NoSQL databases; and
  • Handling critical incidents for production systems.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA61

#LI-DNI

What the Stripe application asks

From 52 application forms we checked.

  1. Location (City) asked on 52 of 52 forms
  2. Please select the country where you currently reside. asked on 51 of 52 forms
  3. What is your current or previous job title? asked on 50 of 52 forms
  4. Who is your current or previous employer? asked on 50 of 52 forms
  5. VeteranStatus asked on 45 of 52 forms
  • Contact details: 52 of 52 forms
  • Resume or CV: 52 of 52 forms
  • Cover letter: 47 of 52 forms
  • Work authorization: 50 of 52 forms
  • Visa sponsorship: 51 of 52 forms
  • Voluntary self-identification (EEO): 48 of 52 forms

Free tools for this application

Guides

Free tools and comparisons

More jobs at Stripe

Applystead is not the employer. This description is shown as Stripe published it on its careers site, read on . Employers can ask hello@applystead.com to remove a posting.